ANY subpoena has basic legal requirements to be enforceable. This is not because of what jurisdiction they were issued from but because that is what due process requires. Part of that due process is a filing of the subpoena, certifying it, and serving it. That means as standard procedure public records are generated, ones which you should easily be able to produce, but can't.
Just because a document has to be certified and served doesn't mean public records are generated. There are plenty of scenarios where documents, like subpoenas for example, being made public would be a violation of privacy or interfere with an investigation. Sometimes Subpoenas are made public, but not very often. Go see how many subpoenas you find on the internet if you don't believe me.
Then go see how many congressional subpoenas you can find. The answer is not many. That's because A) Congress is not required to make the subpoenas public and B) It's just a form. If they want to make the substance of the subpoena public they would put the
subpoena letter on the internet.
There are groups that are very against the exception Congress has when it comes to requiring records to be public, and the laws have been challenged, which is why in Jan 2017 The House voted to be even more explicit:
https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hres5/BILLS-115hres5eh.pdfIn the House of Representatives, U. S.,
January 3, 2017.
Resolved, That the Rules of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, including applicable provisions of law or concurrent resolution that constituted rules of the House at the end of the One Hundred
Fourteenth Congress, are adopted as the Rules of the House
of Representatives of the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress,
with amendments to the standing rules as provided in section
2, and with other orders as provided in sections 3, 4, and 5.
SEC. 2. CHANGES TO THE STANDING RULES.
...
Records created, generated, or received by the
congressional office of a Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner in the performance of official duties
are exclusively the personal property of the individual
Member, Delegate, or the Resident Commissioner and
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such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner has
control over such records.
And let me stop you before you play the "that's for records, not for Subpoenas!"
Anything filed with the clerk is considered a record.
If you're going to continue to insist that all congressional subpoenas are public record, and if a subpoena isn't available to the public then it must not exist, I kindly request you let me know where all the other subpoenas are.
I've only been able to find 8 out of thousands.